Julia Bianco Schoeffling
The Halp Network
Julia Bianco Schoeffling is a casting director, COO, and co-founder of The Halp Network, specializing in creative production services for the gaming industry. Her credits include Hades II, Spider-Man 2, and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. As Chair of the BAFTA North America Games Committee and author of The Art & Business of Acting for Video Games, she champions inclusive casting, culturally authentic collaboration, and ethical production practices across the industry.
Julia Bianco Schoeffling is speaking at the following session/s
Press Start, Mind the Gap: Bridging US and UK Game Casting & Production pipelines
As video game production increasingly spans borders, casting and voice recording across the US and UK has become less of a novelty and more of a necessity. With this comes a unique set of creative, logistical, and cultural challenges. This talk explores what it actually takes to run successful split US/UK casts, from aligning developers to two very different acting climates to building workflows that don’t fall apart when your team is in a whole other time zone.
We’ll dig into the realities behind contracts, pay expectations, session structures, and scheduling differences, and how to set clear expectations with developers early on so production remains fair, efficient, and actor friendly on both sides of the Atlantic without forcing one market’s standards onto another.
Attendees will leave with practical strategies for creating and understanding equitable production pipelines that still deliver one cohesive game.
Session Takeaway
- Practical strategies and ideas for creating equitable production pipelines that still deliver one cohesive game.
- Understanding of where they fit into the pipeline as actors, directors, agents, etc and how best to contribute.
- Better understanding of how game dev pipelines work to be a better collaborator.
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